Why Rorshok Exists

A lot of the systems we have inherited simply aren’t working for us. They may be working... but not for us. They isolate us, keep us angry, divided, exhausted, unequal and thinking that we are powerless, while fucking up our planet. We keep using them and stay within them, and think they are normal because they’re familiar, not because they’re good or natural.

Yes, but some periods involve much deeper change than others. We’re in one now. Technology, politics, climate, work, community and economics are all shifting at once, and all part of one gigantic realignment. The interesting question is whether we shape what comes next or just live with what comes. Because if it’s the second one... yikes.

Sometimes we can, and we should. But sometimes the assumptions underneath a system are the problem. You can’t endlessly renovate something whose basic design no longer works. That’s what Audre Lorde meant about the master’s tools and the master’s house.

Who knows!? We’re a bit suspicious of people who are confident they know. That’s partly why Rorshok exists. We need places where people can imagine alternatives, try them in real life, learn from what happens and gradually build better ways of doing things, within their own lives and communities.

Because ideas that never change how we live aren’t enough. Cranking out PDFs about some policy thing is great, but we need to try new things. Our goal is how to merge philosophy and imagination with what happens Tuesday afternoon in your neighborhood. How we meet, work, share, organize, spend money and take care of each other.

Yes. Getting out of powerful systems entirely on your own is not a thing. Community gives us knowledge, courage, resources and alternatives. And it’s fun. Rorshok starts from the idea that change is something we do together.